Haruhi fans will fondly (?!) remember Endless Eight, the season 2 arc that repeated the same episode 8 times. To celebrate Haruhi’s return to home video, we’re doing a special live stream to help you relive those wonderful (?!) days–by having Funimation’s own Justin Rojas watch all of Endless Eight AT THE SAME TIME?!
Save the date and tune in this Thursday (9/22) at 9:00pm ET to watch the insanity on Funimation’s YouTube channel! The live stream will be in Japanese with English subtitles (to make it a LITTLE easier to follow).
Own The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya – Ultimate Collector’s Edition Blu-ray set today!
- This features not only the original two season series, but the chibi spinoffs The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya + Nyoron! Churuya-san AND the new Nagato-centric alternate universe spinoff, The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan — all in a premium set with a collector’s chipboard box plus a filler box with art cards!
- The filler box happens to be about the same size as a Blu-ray case and can be removed to fit something else…
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Haha uh oh, we are going to lose our minds.
If I was justin I ask for a raise for doing this. No one should have sit through the trolling that is Endless 8 episodes in one sitting.
Watching 8 episodes is easier than what they made Scott do.
He actually died and it was covered up. Parts of his soul are now trapped in every One Piece episode made.
Maybe, but seems like cheating to watch all eight at the same time.
Watched them all at once back when the DVDs came out. I actually enjoyed both seeing the inconsistencies (easy to see when you watched them back-to-back) as well as hearing my friend lament every time I made us watch another one.
Was interested at first when I saw this, but having to subject myself to all 8 episodes, and being in Japanese…. Gonna be watching it all again in the next few weeks anyways when my BDs arrive, so I’ll save my sanity til then.
I’ve debated with myself whether I would make any of my friends sit through all eight episodes. I did it myself, but even I was tempted to skip to the end of the arc.
I was never able to watch season 2 of Haruhi back when it was originally released but i saw them over course of about two days and now I’m seriously considering making the number 8 my second least favorite number after the number 9 which is the name of one of the worst songs ever made (in my opinion anyways). I was literally having a hard time staying awake while watching the endless 8 and in my opinion it is a case study in what not to do for a time loop arc in any entertainment medium.
I actually just finished this up Thursday morning before the livestream… Watched the 2 episode “murder mystery” before as well. Only takes about 4 hours or so….. My problem is the ending, I mean homework? Seriously, did the MEXT (Japan Ministry of Education, Science, Tech) write this? Clearly, the only way to break the time loop was for Haruhi to kiss main character, as is the plot of every Anime . Plus, they had a robot that remembers everything, and yet they forgot to use?…..
Damn 500 character limits… Anyways, I am wondering how Japanese companies who produced this show ever approved this in the first place… it is as if they are trying to bankrupt their franchise by turning everyone off. This story (and execution thereof) is like, good way to kill TV/DVD ratings, real fast…
They should have just skipped episodes 13-18 (or maybe have had a total of 4 at most) and done something else with the six episodes instead, although I can kinda see the symbolism with the number 8 which forms the infinity symbol on it’s side but still 8 episodes of this was way too much and I’d almost rather watch episode 00 instead despite I myself finding it so horrendously bad that I remembered how bad it was 6-7 years later after only having seen it once even without remembering specifics.
Did the livestream actually happen? I didn’t see it during the scheduled start time… at least not at the link listed above…
Oh no… am I experiencing the endless eight right now! Will I never be able to reach the live stream?! Lol 😛
Apparently the original livestream channel crashed so they had to switch it over to another channel at the last minute, you can see the recording of the video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFsfjBIEVu4 (hopefully anyways).
Well, now that I finished up the main series… apparently this so-called buy yet falling flat “Ultimate Collection” is missing “the obvious”….. the Haruhi Movie. According to Wikipedia, appears to finish up the story (after episode 28). But yet, apparently “You Should*n’t be Watching” that of course; because FUNimation’s release record with series ending movies (Heaven’s Lost Property, anyone?) is like 1 and 100000000000000000000 (they got Eden of East, so swell)……………
I personally wish that they had the Steins;Gate movie, especially if it was available for streaming and seriously; Steins;Gate is how a time loop arc should be done even though it could be debated that it was a true time loop since Okabe was deliberately and manually jumping back in time repeatedly.